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OK. I have done even more searching and found this mentioned in the following post from '07:http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...start-in-impex
[URL="http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/troubleshoot_mysql_linkid"]http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/t...t_mysql_linkid [/URL="http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/troubleshoot_mysql_linkid"]

I ran this script and received the connection successful message.
I reviewed a bunch of the other search results I got from searching on 'database cleanup & restart'. There are a couple that seemed to have gotten it to work but what they did to fix it is not clear.

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